[NJARC] A new television museum

[Bill Burns]

On 1/17/2009 3:16 PM, Dave Sica wrote:
> Visit our web site - See http://www.njarc.org
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> http://www.teleseum.org/

What a hard-to-view site - not helped by its use of six-point white on 
black type, displayed as an image and not re-sizable in the browser.

And while there are hours posted, there's no indication of where it is; 
the domain is registered to an Arizona address.

A little googling shows it's a spoof (or perhaps "art installation" 
would be kinder):

Steve Gompf: Televisor Installations - Arts (Schneider Hall Galleries )
Exhibit reception. Don't believe everything you read, watch or see. 
Artist Steve Gompf uses sculpture and modern communications to fabricate 
an alternate history of the birth of our media culture: the 'televisor.' 
Gompf has created a museum for the televisor, his fictitious predecessor 
to the television that presents video content in the style of motion 
photography pioneer Edweard Muybridge on viewing machines that appear to 
be contemporaries of the Victrola. The museum exists only as a Web site 
(http://www.teleseum.org/) and contains extensive 'documentation' of the 
'Televisor Era' (photographs of televisors. clips of televisor footage, 
newspaper advertisements, etc.).

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Bill Burns
Long Island   NY   USA
http://ftldesign.com